Recorded at New Scotland Yard in Dartmouth, NS, “Thunder” finds Quiet Parade leaning hard into their signature fog rock style, reveling in winding guitar lines, fading choruses, and words that go straight for the heart. Punctuated by chiming down-tuned electrics, haunting backup melodies, and crashing rhythms, “Thunder” is a story of longing for answers to questions never asked; a coastal-soaked sense of searching, mired in mist.

The follow-up to their French-language debut, Nous Étions Icitte, “Thunder” is the first brand new music from the group in nearly three years.

On the heels of the new song, Quiet Parade also announces several shows throughout the Maritimes including performances at the Halifax Pop Explosion and Nova Scotia Music Week.

Acadian Embassy Showcase at HPX 2018

Sep 23, 2018

Acadian Embassy helps kick off the 2018 Halifax Pop Explosion Music Festival & Conference with a roster showcase. Rain Over St. Ambrose, Quiet Parade, Fossil Cliffs and special guest Céleste Godin perform at The Seahorse Tavern on Wednesday, October 17. Show starts at 8:00pm sharp. Get festival wristbands HERE. More details to come on night-of tickets & door pricing.

QUIET PARADE joins POSTDATA for Maritime Tour

May 14, 2018

Halifax fog-rockers Quiet Parade have been tapped as special guest openers for the upcoming Postdata Maritime tour. Dates are as follows:

The frontman of beloved Nova Scotia alternative outfit Wintersleep, Paul Murphy has built a circle of collaborators, friends, and family around him for more than a decade. Murphy first released music with Postdata in 2010, a self-titled debut that saw him working with his brother Michael to record a set of songs that dealt with family, legacy, and connection. Now, Postdata returns with Let’s Be Wilderness, a record characterized by those two old bickering friends: love and death. The brilliant new album is available on May 18, 2018.

Focused and fearless, Quiet Parade presents introspective, bleeding-heart folk-rock shrouded in a little fog. Building on a foundation of nostalgia and longing, the Halifax-based band revels in winding guitar lines, fading choruses, and words that go straight for the heart. In the face of winter, the band unveiled their French-language debut – an EP titled Nous Étions Icitte. Featuring four translated songs that originally appeared (in English) on the band’s award-winning self-titled album, the record was released in February 2018.

Nous Étions Icitte features four songs that originally appeared (in English) on the band’s award-winning self-titled album, translated to French.

“I wanted this record to be an artifact that represented a very specific slice of Acadian life in Nova Scotia,” Quiet Parade songsmith Trevor Murphy tells Noreaster Online. “I wanted it to speak about and represent Par-en-Bas (a geographical region that encompasses several Acadian communities around Yarmouth, NS) in a way I had not heard before and create something that represented our voice for once.”

This week, Murphy also stopped by Radio-Canada’s Le Réveil for an interview to chat about the origins of Nous Étions Icitte. Listen to the segment here: http://bit.ly/QP-RadioCanada

Sleepless Nights Return!

After six years, Sleepless Nights are back. Their brand new EP, Keith Hamilton, is available via Acadian Embassy and Forward Music Group on Friday, September 15. The band embarks on a series of tour dates throughout Eastern Canada in its support. Dates are as follows:

In the mid-aughts, Sleepless Nights carved out their reputation as one of the hardest working bands on the East Coast of Canada. By their final tours in 2009, when the group was put on indefinite hiatus, Sleepless Nights were playing an entire new, unreleased set of songs. There was a miffed attempt at capturing them in 2011, but no recordings were ever completed.

In June 2016, approaching the 10-year anniversary of their breakout EP, Hang Up, Sleepless Nights reconvened for a weekend of recording in Toronto at Taurus Recording with Thomas D’Arcy (Small Sins/TheLadies and Gentlemen, k-os) to archive four of those songs. With former member Matt MacDonald (The Superfantastics) joining them in studio, the band recorded Keith Hamilton – an EP that chronicles the now seasoned musicians returning to their roots.

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About Keith Hamilton…

Since the first Sleepless Nights release in 2004, there have been two constants in the band: the steadfast artistic vision and direction of Aaron Wallace, and a gentleman named Keith Hamilton.

A fixture in the Toronto music scene, Hamilton booked the Halifax band’s first ever show outside of the Maritimes. Through the years, Sleepless Nights toured with several of Hamilton’s acts. Four in fact: The Postage Stamps, The Diableros, Hamilton Tradition Company, and Beams. He has been there from the beginning, and has tirelessly stuck by the band as a booker, a musician, an actor, and a friend.

“He is the unofficial twenty-second member of the band. No question,” adds Josh “Pinky” Pothier, the group’s drummer, jokingly referring to the sheer number of members the band has had over time.

Over 13 years, much has changed about Sleepless Nights. Musical styles, members, and formations, but never Keith Hamilton.

It seemed apt, then, that on what feels like a return to their musical foundation – dialed up, commanding pop rock – the band should pay homage to the other persistent thread that has followed them through their career.

Plus, who doesn’t love Keith?

Rain Over St. Ambrose’s “Broken Love” in on The Verge’s Top 40 Year-End List at #11

Dec 12, 2016

Rain Over St. Ambrose continues to make big strides with on SiriusXM’s The Verge. Their single, “Broken Love,“ comes in at #11 on the station’s Top 40 year-end list. Beginning on Wednesday, December 14, The Verge will count down the 40 biggest Canadian songs played on the channel this year on multiple occasions. For a full list of broadcast dates visit: http://www.siriusxm.ca/verge-the-40-2016

“Broken Love” spent four weeks on The Verge’s Top 10 chart this fall, and hit the Canada: Alternative Rock Top 50 commercial radio charts twice during this period.

Rain Over St. Ambrose performs in Yarmouth, NS on December 26, 2016, headlining the Annual Acadian Embassy Boxing Day Bash.